linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pata

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Date:	Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:12:05 -0600
From:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>
To:	Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...l.org, jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pata_acpi: take two

Alan wrote:
> --- linux.vanilla-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c	2007-01-31 14:20:10.000000000 +0000
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc6-mm3/drivers/ata/pata_amd.c	2007-02-06 17:04:19.000000000 +0000
> @@ -642,6 +642,11 @@
>  	if (type == 1 && rev > 0x7)
>  		type = 2;
>  
> +#if defined(CONFIG_ATA_ACPI)
> +	/* Prefer the ACPI driver for Nvidia hardware */
> +	if (pdev->vendor == PCI_VENDOR_ID_NVIDIA && ata_pata_acpi_present(pdev))
> +		return -ENODEV;
> +#endif		
>  	/* Check for AMD7411 */
>  	if (type == 3)
>  		/* FIFO is broken */

Problem with this approach is it may break distro/initrd setups since 
the pata_amd driver appears to be the one that "should" work based on 
the PCI ID, so the initrd would end up containing only this driver, 
which will fail out with -ENODEV and cause a boot failure. If the root 
filesystem was on a disk driven by this controller, the mkinitrd stuff 
would have to "know" that it should also try loading pata_acpi.

Unless there are some Nvidia boxes out there which don't provide 
_GTM/_STM ACPI methods (which seems a bit unlikely given Allen Martin's 
comments) then we could potentially move the Nvidia PATA PCI IDs into 
the pata_acpi driver, at least if ACPI is enabled in the kernel build..

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Robert Hancock      Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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